Rashid is gonna get his chance to salvage his career at Yorkshire. Rafiq out for 6 weeks with a knee injury.

Big game for Yorkshire imo this week. Bresnan, Root and Bairstow all playing so about as strong as they'll be all season. And playing Durham who are one of the weaker teams and another relegation candidate. Problem is that it's at Chester le Street and Durham are pretty handy at home especially with Onions.

Given that they made 495 against Kent it seems unlikely that they'd want to drop a batsman, so Ireland for Hoggard must be the most likely change. Also it's quite unusual for a young batsman to debut in the Championship - generally they get tried out in limited-overs cricket first.

I was just wondering why Sky aren't showing the Somerset-Warks game as advertised in the Cricketer, turns out it starts tomorrow. Durham v Yorkshire on the radio today. Hope the weather we have here is replicated around the country.

Durham will still win plenty of games with their bowling, I just wish they'd stop kidding themselves with this top 4. Stop pissing around with players who clearly aren't good enough or past it and bring in some proper batsmen.